Libya's national football team will finish the year 2012 in 54th position from among the 207 members of the International Football Federation, FIFA. That means it gained nine places in the overall standing since a year ago when it finished 2011 in 63rd place.
The latest FIFA Ranking list up to December 19, places Libya in 54th place, meaning it climbed five places since November, which also gives it an eleventh place among the nations members of the Confederation of African Football.
Year 2012, has also seen Libyan climb to its best ever position in 36th place in September, but since then it lost all the ground it had gained after the loss against Algeria in its two qualifying matches for next month's African Cup of Nations finals in South Africa.
The position also boosts Libya's moral in the year after the 2011 Revolution in which it rid itself of the Gaddafi dictatorial regime, and also any involvement by the Gaddafi family members in the running of sport in the country, particularly football that had become a vehicle for the Gaddafi brothers to try and win over support. In the end, this involvement only gagged the progress on the field of play and brought discomfort among the clubs domestically.
Libya started the year 63rd in the FIFA/Coca Cola World Ranking, then it gained 10 places the following month, but lost two in the March list. But April saw it gain nine places, climbing to 46th, a place it held in May. But in the following four months, Libya seemed to take the ranking list by storm.
In June it climbed four places to 42nd, then gained three more places in July, another one in August, and in September reached its best ever position, 36th.
After that, and due to lack of competitive matches and the two defeats against Algeria, it slipped to 53rd in October and lost six more places in July, only to recover somewhat in the latest ranking just announced, that sees World and European champions Spain holding on to the top position, and Brazil finishing in their worst ever position in 18th.
During the period taken into consideration,143 international matches were played. And though the top ten may have remained the same, there were a few shuffles elsewhere on 2012?s last instalment of the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking.
Spain will finish the year at the summit for the fifth time in succession - an achievement which earns them the ?Team of the Year? title - followed by Germany, Argentina and Italy (4th, up 1).
The ?Mover of the Year? goes to Colombia for the second time since the Ranking was introduced in 1993. They finished 2011 in 36th, but thanks to six wins, one draw and only one defeat thereafter - and the 455 points they consequently earned - they end 2012 in fifth.
It has also been a very successful year for Ecuador (13th, up 365 points since December 2011) and Mali (25th, up 337 points since December 2011).
Over the course of the year, the regional composition of the top 50 has only slightly changed: whereas the number of teams from UEFA (27 teams in the top 50), CONMEBOL (9), CONCACAF (3) and the OFC (0) remained the same, CAF (8, plus 1) finished the year with one team more in the top 50, at the expense of the AFC (3, minus 1).
In total in 2012, the results of 900 matches have been taken into account, more than half of which were friendlies (465-52 %) and more than a quarter of which were qualifying matches for the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil (257-29%).
The top 10 finishers for 2010 are:
1. Spain
2. Germany
3. Argentina
4. Italy
5. Colombia
6. England
7. Portugal
8. Netherlands
9. Russia
10. Croatia
Ivory Coast held on to their top place among the African nations. They also finish 19 overall.
The other teams above Libya in the CAF list are: 2. Algeria 3. Mali 4. Ghana 5. Zambia 6. Egypt 7. Gabon 8. Tunisia 9. Central African Republic and 10. Nigeria.
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